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The 90 pages that link to Second Temple Judaism, each with the reason it gives.

• Early ChristianityNarrower topic: Jesus and his earliest followers lived within this religious world.

• Paul the ApostleNarrower topic: Paul’s scriptures, identity, and debates emerged within this Jewish world.

• ChristianityNarrower topic: Christianity began among Jews whose scriptures, worship, and hopes shaped its earliest ideas.

• Dead Sea ScrollsNarrower topic: The manuscripts document Jewish scriptures, practices, and disputes within this varied historical setting.

• HalakhaNarrower topic: Its debates and institutions formed the setting for early rabbinic legal development.

• JesusNarrower topic: Jesus’s teachings and practices emerged within this Jewish world.

• Historical JesusNarrower topic: Jesus’s teachings and disputes arose within this Jewish religious world.

• MishnahNarrower topic: Many legal traditions preserved in the Mishnah developed before the Temple’s destruction.

• TheismRelated: Its debates helped shape later Jewish and Christian understandings of God.

• Pauline epistlesNarrower topic: Paul's scriptural reasoning and religious vocabulary developed within this Jewish world.

• Rabbinic JudaismNarrower topic: Rabbinic Judaism emerged from this varied religious world rather than replacing a single uniform tradition.

• Babylonian captivityNarrower topic: Exile and return helped shape the institutions and traditions of this era.

• MidrashNarrower topic: Interpretive practices predating rabbinic compilations formed part of midrash's background.

• MonotheismBroader topic: Its texts and debates document mature forms of Jewish belief in one God.

• Apocalyptic literatureNarrower topic: Many influential Jewish apocalypses arose within this historical setting.

• Christian eschatologyNarrower topic: Early Christian expectations developed amid Jewish debates about resurrection, judgment, and the age to come.

• GnosticismNarrower topic: Gnostic ideas developed amid Jewish debates about creation, scripture, angels, and salvation.

• JudaismBroader topic: This period formed key institutions and debates inherited by later Judaism.

• Book of RevelationNarrower topic: Revelation’s imagery reflects Jewish traditions that developed before and around the book’s composition.

• Resurrection of the deadBroader topic: Resurrection hope took distinct forms amid this period's Jewish debates about justice and the afterlife.

• EschatologyNarrower topic: Its debates about resurrection, messiahs, and judgment formed a setting for early Christian expectations.

• PassoverNarrower topic: The Temple’s destruction reshaped Passover from pilgrimage sacrifice toward home-based ritual.

• Sermon on the MountNarrower topic: The sermon’s scriptural language and moral debates belong to this historical setting.

• SynagogueNarrower topic: Synagogue institutions took shape within this period, alongside worship centered on the Jerusalem Temple.

• Jerusalem TempleNarrower topic: The First Temple’s loss shaped the traditions and institutions that developed around its successor.

• Oral TorahNarrower topic: Oral legal traditions developed within the Jewish communities and institutions of this era.

• Ark of the CovenantNarrower topic: The Ark’s absence from the Second Temple became a striking feature of later Jewish sacred history.

• Destruction of the Second TempleNarrower topic: Its institutions and practices were transformed by the sanctuary's destruction.

• Abrahamic religionsBroader topic: Christianity emerged within the varied Jewish world of this period.

• Christianity in the Roman EmpireNarrower topic: Christianity began within this diverse religious world.

• Council of JerusalemNarrower topic: The debate arose within a movement still rooted in Jewish scripture and practice.

• Jewish liturgyNarrower topic: Temple worship and synagogue prayer in this era supplied key precedents for later liturgy.

• John the BaptistNarrower topic: John preached within the religious world shaped by the Jerusalem Temple and its surrounding movements.

• Mary, mother of JesusNarrower topic: Mary’s identity and setting belong to the Jewish society of this period.

• Antiochus IV EpiphanesNarrower topic: His policies intervened in the religious institutions and practices of this broader period.

• DemonRelated: Texts from this period developed influential accounts of rebellious spirits and evil powers.

• Maccabean RevoltNarrower topic: The revolt arose within this broader era of Jewish religious and political life.

• MessiahNarrower topic: This period saw varied expectations of deliverance and future leadership develop.

• PhariseesNarrower topic: The Pharisees were one movement within this wider Jewish world.

• Second Temple periodBroader topic: It names the religious world that developed within this historical era.

• YavnehCompared with: Yavneh’s prominence belongs to the transition away from the Temple-centered order.

• Old TestamentRelated: Its communities transmitted and interpreted scriptures that later formed Christian Old Testament collections.

• PseudepigraphyNarrower topic: Many Jewish pseudepigraphic works emerged within the literary worlds of this period.

• SamaritansRelated: Samaritans and Judeans developed distinct institutions amid this wider religious world.

• SadduceesNarrower topic: The Sadducees emerged within this broader religious and political world.

• ExorcismNarrower topic: Texts from this period describe spirits and practices that informed later Jewish and Christian traditions.

• SatanNarrower topic: Texts from this era developed varied accounts of cosmic evil and hostile spiritual powers.

• Book of EnochNarrower topic: The work emerged within this varied world of Jewish interpretation and apocalyptic expectation.

• Jewish historyBroader topic: Its competing movements and practices shaped Judaism and early Christianity.

• Jewish literatureNarrower topic: This era produced many texts that shaped later Jewish canon and interpretation.